Sky News sometimes dabbles in real journalism, but this week, I guess they decided they wanted to be hacks.
Let's break this gross headline down.
Last week, there was a right-wing German political party that held an event protesting the Islamization of their country that is happening due to mass migration from Muslim countries like Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan. The event warned about the rise in violence being caused by these populations.
Right on cue, a knife-wielding jihadi showed up and started stabbing people at the event, but instead of identifying him as the threat, 29-year-old officer Rouven L. tackled German right-wing activist Michael Sturzenberger, who was in the process of getting stabbed.
The officer looked surprised when he was suddenly stabbed from behind. Everyone who watched the horrific video wondered why he immediately considered the German activist a threat instead of the Afghani with a massive knife in his hand.
Rouven was placed in a medical coma, but died on Sunday from his wounds. The 25-year-old Afghani terrorist, meanwhile, is still alive despite being shot (there's a lesson here for the anti-gun crowd on how horrific knife wounds can be). He stabbed six other people who are expected to survive.
The headline from Sky News and others should be something like this:
Instead, they made it sound like those dang Germans who want Germany to remain German and think Islam might have a violence problem were the baddies.
Enter Community Notes:
I have no idea if the reporter, Daniel Binns, wanted to frame the story this way. Newsrooms and their editorial processes are strange, convoluted things.
But somewhere in that process, someone decided to run with this framing instead of the truth, and that type of thing happens at hundreds of corporate outlets hundreds of times a day.
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